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Zen promotes the rediscovery of the obvious, which is so often lost in its familiarity and simplicity. It sees the miraculous in the common and magic in our everyday surroundings. When we are not rushed, and our minds are unclouded by conceptualizations, a veil will sometimes drop, introducing the viewer to a world unseen since childhood. ~ John Greer

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

“These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things
without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.”

“Two great appetites of the soul - the urge to independence and
self-determination and the urge to self-transcendence - were fused with, and
interpreted in the light of, a third - the urge to worship”

“I took my pill at eleven. An hour and half later I was sitting in
my study, looking intently at a small glass vase. The vase contained only three
flowers -- a full-blown Belle of Portugal rose, shell pink with a hint at every
petal's base of a hotter, flamier hue; a large magenta and cream-coloured
carnation; and, pale purple at the end of its broken stalk, the bold heraldic
blossom of an iris. Fortuitous and provisional, the little nosegay broke all
the rules of traditional good taste. At breakfast that morning I had been
struck by the lively dissonance of its colours. But that was no longer the
point. I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing
what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation -- the miracle, moment by
moment, of naked existence.”

“Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has
ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere
in the universe.”

“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always
and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into
the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to
fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By
its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in
solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancy - all these are private and,
except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool
information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From
family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.”

― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception & Heaven
and Hell

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Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Informal Economy. - System of trade or economic exchange used
outside state controlled or money based transactions. Practiced by most of the
world's population, it includes barter of goods and services, mutual self-help,
odd jobs, street trading, and other such direct sale activities. Income
generated by the informal economy is usually not recorded for taxation
purposes, and is often unavailable for inclusion in gross domestic product
computations.

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Monday, September 21, 2015

“If
you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool
of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness; then if you squeeze your eyes
tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colours become so vivid that
with another squeeze they must go on fire.”

― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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Saturday, September 19, 2015

“Fortunately,
some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection
to the illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth through social
conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for
answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of
reality others are oblivious to, and so begins their journey of awakening. Each
step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of following the
crowd and by choosing knowledge over the veils of ignorance.”

Henri
Bergson

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